Concrete Quote by Ann Goldstein

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

— Gregory Rabassa

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate…

— Mona Baker

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading…

— Daniel Alarcon

All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an…

— Ilan Stavans

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of…

— Peter Newmark

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes…

— Alma Guillermoprieto